The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 119

In the night the dog came again, took the Princess on his back and ran away with her to the Soldier, who was very much in love with her, and would have liked to have been a Prince, so that he might have had her for his wife.

Who acts: dog, Soldier · What happens: come, take, run away, be, like, have · To what, where: night, Princess, back, love, Prince, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	acl:relcl
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 ran	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ran	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 Soldier	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Soldier	det
22	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 love	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 love	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	29 love	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 love	case
29	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Soldier	appos
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 love	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 liked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 liked	cc
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 liked	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 liked	aux
36	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 took	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	41 Prince	mark
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 Prince	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 Prince	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Prince	det
41	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 liked	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 had	punct
43	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 had	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 so	fixed
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 had	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 had	aux
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 had	aux
48	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 liked	conj
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 had	obj
50	for	for	ADP	_	52 wife	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 wife	nmod:poss
52	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 had	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the dog	the night not said here		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme
2	take	past		the Princess	King's back	night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on back=Destination
3	run away	past					with Queen; to the Soldier result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to soldier=Result
4	is	past	the Soldier		love		with Queen	tree rules
5	like	would · perfect						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a	to-infinitive · perfect		a Prince				tree rules
7	have	might · perfect	soldier	Queen			for soldier's wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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